• Craft

    Shop Talk: Rachel Howzell Hall Writes Longhand, Loves Office Supplies, and Has One Magical Story About a Lost Manuscript

    Crime writers on routine, color coding, and why you should always take your manuscript inside with you.

    November 11, 2021  By Eli Cranor
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    What About Ann Rule?

    An ode to the original queen of true crime, who focused on victims, not perpetrators; lessons, not details; and loss, not violence.

    November 10, 2021  By Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell
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    An Appreciation of Genre-Breaking Mysteries

    These books start out as noir, then take sharp left turn...

    November 9, 2021  By Nick Mamatas
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    How to Use the Environment of a Novel to Enhance Suspense

    Sometimes the setting really is a character in itself. But how do you get there?

    November 9, 2021  By Alice Henderson
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    Rex Pickett On The Strange Experience of Donating His Papers To The Archives

    When the author of Sideways sent his papers off to be catalogued, he never expected to find inspiration for his next novel.

    November 9, 2021  By Rex Pickett
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    Soft Boiled Mysteries for Women Over 50

    "The soft-boiled genre is embedded firmly between the cozy and the hard-boiled, like middle-aged and elder women ensconced between siren and senior."

    November 8, 2021  By Gabrielle St. George
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    The Psychology of Reading and Writing Crime Fiction

    What makes crime stories so therapeutic? Writer and family counselor Lynne Reeves has some theories.

    November 8, 2021  By Lynne Reeves
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    What Agatha Christie's Novels—And Life—Have to Teach Today’s Crime Writers

    A Christie Curriculum

    November 4, 2021  By Lori Rader-Day
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    The Lure of Objects: On the Outsized Importance of Talismans and Symbols

    "Have you ever stopped to think about how the items in books help to define our favorite characters?"

    November 4, 2021  By Heather Redmond
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    When Reality Is Too Strange To Make It Into Your Novel

    "You can't make this up": Anne Emery on the bizarre coincidences behind her latest historical mystery.

    November 4, 2021  By Anne Emery
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